[Bug 5016] New: "abort: cannot use an integer as a name" even though that branch already exists

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https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5016

            Bug ID: 5016
           Summary: "abort: cannot use an integer as a name" even though
                    that branch already exists
           Product: Mercurial
           Version: 3.4
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: feature
          Priority: wish
         Component: Mercurial
          Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
          Reporter: julien.cristau at logilab.fr
                CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com

I have a repo with branches named "10", "11", "12".  I would like to keep using
that repo.  But "hg branch 12" aborts.

$ hg branch
12
$ hg branch $(hg branch)
abort: cannot use an integer as a name

--force doesn't help.

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